Evaluation of startup companies using multicriteria decision making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic information envelopment analysis models

M Lin, Z Chen, R Chen, H Fujita - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating startup companies is an important management process for technology business
incubators and it is also a typical multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) problem. There exist …

A new hesitant fuzzy linguistic ORESTE method for hybrid multicriteria decision making

H Liao, X Wu, X Liang, J Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is an effective tool to express the experts'
subjective evaluations in the processes of decision making. To solve the problem with both …

Evaluation of small and medium-sized enterprises' sustainable development with hesitant fuzzy linguistic group decision-making method

F Jin, Y Zhang, H Garg, J Liu, J Chen - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
With the rapid development of the economy, the competition among enterprises is
increasingly intensifying and the internal contradictions of the enterprise are prominent …

Linguistic hesitant fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making method based on evidential reasoning

H Zhou, J Wang, H Zhang, X Chen - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Linguistic hesitant fuzzy sets (LHFSs), which can be used to represent decision-makers'
qualitative preferences as well as reflect their hesitancy and inconsistency, have attracted a …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic prioritized superiority and inferiority ranking method and its application in sustainable energy technology evaluation

N Zhao, Z Xu, Z Ren - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to develop a hesitant fuzzy linguistic prioritized superiority and
inferiority ranking method, which is used to solve multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) …

Multi-attribute decision analysis under a linguistic hesitant fuzzy environment

F Meng, X Chen, Q Zhang - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new class of fuzzy sets called linguistic hesitant fuzzy sets (LHFSs) is
defined, which can address the qualitative preferences of experts as well as reflect their …

A hesitant fuzzy linguistic multi-granularity decision making model based on distance measures

F Meng, X Chen - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 2015 - content.iospress.com
With respect to hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets, a distance measure that can be seen as an
extension of some linguistic distance measures is presented. Then, two generalized hesitant …

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic entropy and cross-entropy measures and alternative queuing method for multiple criteria decision making

X Gou, Z Xu, H Liao - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is a useful tool for describing people's subjective
cognitions in the process of decision making. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) …

ELECTRE II method based on the cosine similarity to evaluate the performance of financial logistics enterprises under double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic …

R Zhang, Z Xu, X Gou - Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, 2023 - Springer
It is very common to use linguistic information to solve decision-making problems in real life,
and the double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLTS) has been widely used …

Multi-criteria decision-making approaches based on distance measures for linguistic hesitant fuzzy sets

H Zhou, J Wang, H Zhang - Journal of the operational research …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Linguistic hesitant fuzzy sets (LHFSs), which can be used to both represent decision-makers'
qualitative preferences and reflect their hesitancy and inconsistency, have attracted much …